Wichita eagle., 1887-09-15
THE BUSY CITY.
Crowded With strangers Looking After Bust.
ness NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Evening.

While the great cities of the east are
busily engaged for opening their fall expo
sitions with trade marts, junk shops, and
great Siberian Mammoths, that howled
around under the moon when the earth was
young, the entire state of Kansas presents q
perfect industrial exposition with Wichita
as the center Of everything that is attractive
in this line. 1t is not only speculative
boom in real estate, but the tall smoke
stacks of foundries and machine shops
are going up in every direction, and thou
sand new industries are continually being
added to the list. Large business blocks are
being built, and with recent railway connec-
tions, new territory has been placed at the
doors OF our wholesale merchants, and now
more than hundred commercial travellers
representing our wholesale trade are on the
road, and the number is increasing as rapidly
as the growth of the city. On every side is
the hum and hustle OF active business, and
already all the available space is occupiej at
the hotels, and thousands of strangers
have again commenced crowding the streets
and ningling with the busy crowd in the
great whirl of commercial and industrial en-
terprise. Advices from all points east indi
cate that large excursions are coming to
Wichita for the purpose of seeing the city
and making investments. Enough people
have been here and returned to demonstrate
the fact to the people that it is really mag
zeal city, and in commercial growth the
wonder not only of the west but Of the en-
tire country. The people Of the east have
become weary of exposition excursions,
where they see only miniature representa-
lions and they are low going to take adj
vantage of cheap railroad excursion
"a es, and come where they can see city
that represents in all the arts and industries
a grand exposition, with every department
in working order. A large excursion will
come out from Louisville On the Goth inst.
and others are coming from New York,
Chicago, Cincinnati and other eastern
estes. The people are already coming fast
err than they can be cared for and the fall
boom is not yet under full head of steam.
We do not attempt to build up Wichita by
speaking lightly of the enterprise of other
cities but all we ask is for the people to come
and be convinced Of our greatness and
our opportunities for becoming the
great commercial metropolis of the
southwest. In this particular nature has adj
mirably performed her part of the work, and
she has met with substantial support by the
grit and enterprise of our citizens. The
manufacturing establishments now under
way, and actually in rapid process Of con-
struction, will by the 1st of January, 1888,
amount to over So, 600, 900 and the work of
supplying this great anterial system of COM
mercial life has just been commenced. There
are thousand industries yet to come. We
are in the near future to have canning
establishments, silk manufactures, sugar
refneries, wooden mills, Touring mills, tan
neries, and all the other branches that al
ways spring up from these main stems.
The speculative period in real estate is now
over, and the solid development of the city
has begun with the most fiattering prospects
OF success With all this in sight, and the
work actually going on-the manufacturers
being built-the sound of thousand ham
mers heard in every direction, will astonish
visitors who have amused themselves during
the summer months by reading about Wichi-
tas ''busted boom" The city is now on the
great iron highway which leads to CONNER
cial prosperity, with too much capital in
vested to ever jump the track.